The hardware is compact, cheap, reasonably powerful, efficient, and they are willing to colo it for a pittance. I would consider buying one of these, maxing out

The hardware is compact, cheap, reasonably powerful, efficient, and they are willing to colo it for a pittance. I would consider buying one of these, maxing out the ram, installing linux on one of these, and hosting it with them. It would pay for itself in less than year in terms of savings compared to a low end dedicated server, and have more firepower to boot.